The College News
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VOL. XXIX, No. 22
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1943
Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College. 1943
PRICE 10 CENTS
Dr. Burns Notes
Permanent Need
For Social Plans
NRPB's Research Director
Gives Problems Faced
In Vital Work
� Goodhart, April 20.�The prob-
lem of freedom from want is,
above alt, not a-lWeWe war eimer-1
gency, but a permanent and vital
problem for the welfare1 of a conn-
try, sai.l Dr.. .Eveline? Bijrns.j Di-
rector of Research for the Na-
tional Resources Planning Board,
in a lecture sponsored by the War
Alliance. We have never been
fully aware of the importance of
a program for full employment to
the economic status of the world.
Even now, Dr. Burns empha-
sized, when the United States em-
ployment is at its peak, there are
four million households dependent
on public aid, a full quarter of a
million above the Board's esti-
mated maximum.
In formulating its policies, the
Board has had to examine the pro-
grams already in operation, deriv-
ing from them the facts necessary
to form a basis for practical, last-
ing plans.
Realizing the defects of contem-
porary measures, the Planning
Board has published its proposed
policies, in an effort to improve
and integrate the variety of secur-
ity programs now in existence. To
overcome the difficulties of a tight
labor market, people must be
moved to locations of expanding
opportunity, and the government
must be able to provide work for
Continued oh Page Three
New Manpower Bill
Attacked by Carver
And Industrial Group
Germantown Y- M. C. A,., April
lit.�Miss Wilhelmina Carver, Di-
rector of Health and Welfare at
the American Pulley Company,
spoke to the Industrial Group
meeting on Wednesday on the Aus-
tin-Wadsworth Bill to draft man-
power. Miss Carver urged oppo-
sition to the bill firstly because it
would not help to solve the basic
difficulty of our war economy,
which is the ''lack of centralized
planning," and secondly because
this particular "draft manpower"
bill would destroy labor's collec-
tive bargaining rights!
The Austin-Wadsworth Bill pro-
poses to.draft all men and women
between the ages of 18 and 50,
with the exception of office hold-
ers in city, State and Federal gov-
ernment. Workers would have no
collective bargaining rights in the
places to which they are allocated
by tHe administrator's'of the pro-
posed draft, said Miss Carver. Ah
Continued from Page Three
Tennis Tournament
The Middle States Inter-
collegiate Tennis Tourna-
ment for Wornen will be held
on the Bryn Mawr courts on
Saturday, May 1, at If. M.
It. will be open to anyone who
is a student in a college in
the vicinity of Philadelphia.
Players enter as individuals,
not as college teams. There
will be singles only, and. no
limi^ .has heen set on the
number of .entries. The entry
fee, is $14>p..,,Anyone, who
wishes ff� play must let M, jss
Grant ,^npw by Friday, April, |
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Retiring Presidents
Read Annual Reports
At Inaugural Meeting
Goodhart, April 15.�The incom-
ing presidents of the Self-GoVern-
ment and, Undergraduate Associa-
tions, thfi. League, the Alliance,
and the Athletic Association,,"<were
formally Inaugurated Thursday
with the robes of their predeces-
sors and beribboned mallets. Pa-
tricia St. Lawrence took office as
president of Self:Goyernment, Kay
Tappen of Undergrad, Phoebe
Stevens of the League, Jessie
Stone of the Alliance, and Jean
Brunn of the Athletic Association.
Frances Matthai, outgoing presi-
dent of Self-Gov, reported the year
a success in spite of unsettled con-
ditions due to the war. Virginia
Beal gave the report of the treas-
urer from April, 1942, to April,
1943.
Sally Matteson, this year's
Undergrad head, reported a modi-
fication of duties and more com-
plete cooperation within the Asso-
ciation. In spite of the efficiency
of Undergrad, there remained the
danger of lack of coordination, too
much bureaucracy, and the over-
lapping of duties. To avert this,
an Undergraduate Council was
established, composed of all the
presidents and the editor of the
News. Next year, there wfH be
posted an undergraduate schedule
on the Taylor bulletin board which
will be kept up to date by the War
Information Board and the clubs.
Ty Walker gave the financial re-
port for the association.
Betty Nicrosi, Alliance presi-
dent, described the formation of
the Alliance last winter before
Pearl Harbor for the purpose of
directing the "activities of the
student body towards winning the
war." The whole college voted for
the president, and three chairmen
were chosen in charge of courses,
forums, and publicity. A consti-
tution was written and a new name
selected. At a mass meeting,
Professor F. Manning
Will Present Aspects
Of Military Strategy
Streeter, Director of Marines,
To Talk at Undergrad Assembly
Dr. Frederick Johnson Manning, jr,
Professor of History at Swarth-
I more College, will give the fourth
in the series of war assemblies on
Thursday, April 22, at 12:30 P. M.
He will discuss the Military As-
pects of the War. An Army offi-
cer in the last War, Dr. Manning |
is teaching a new course in mili-
tary strategy in addition to his
courses in the history of the Su-
preme Court and in general his-
tory. �
Dr. Manning graduated from
Yale, in 1916 and enlisted as a
private in the field artillery the |
following year. He attended offi-
cer's training school in Kentucky
and received his commission. After
the Armistice he transferred to
the Army War College in Wash-
ington. He left to continue his J________________ � �______
studies, and taught at Yale forjr ~m "
five years. He then came tojAuden, BHen, Edel,
Swarthmore. His particular fields
are American, English and Medie-
val History.
"I come from an army family,"
Dr. Manning said. His family has
taken part in every American war.
Dr. Manning has traveled wide-
ly, especially in France, England,
and Italy, and map-making is his
favorite hobby.
Palmer, Rice Will Describe
Service Life in WAVES
And WAACS
Senators Advocate
Bill to Co-Operate
With United Nations
Major Ruth Cheney Streeter, of
the Marine Corps; Lieutenant
Jean Palmer, U. S. N. R., and
First Officer Jessie Pearl Rice, of
the Women's Auxiliary Army
Corps, will speak at an Under*
graduate assembly on the indi-
vidual branches of the services
and how women can be of service
in time of war, on Tuesday, April
27, at 12:00 P. M. in Goodhart.
Major Streeter, director of the
Women's Reserve of the United
States Marine Corps, is a Bryn
Mawr alumna, class of 1918. Long
interested fn aviation, she became
a licensed commercial pilot and in
1941 was the only woman member
of the Committee on Aviation,
New Jersey Defense Council. With
her mother, Mrs. W. H. Schofield,
she gave the "Cheney" award,
which is given every year to some
member of the Army Air Corps for
"acts of valor or extreme fortitude
The Deanery, April 15. � The__ ,, ... � r.
..... ... � . . I or self-sacrifice. It was given
Pay Tribute to Work,
Life of Henry James
poet, W. II. Auden, Mr. Donald i � *�.__�.�.�. ��
'. ... ,�,, , I in memory of her brother, Lieuten-
Brien, and Mr. Leon Edel spoke . �.-,,. � �. .
,, , , � ,, . ant William H. Cheney, who was
at the celebration of the centenary
of the birth of Henry James.
Miss Lucy Martin Donnelly,
killed in World War I in an air
collision.
Lieutenant Palmer, also a Bryn
Professor Emer.tus of English at Mawr a,umnaj c,ags of m^ js an
various�opportunities�:rbr�wax
work were offered to the students,
such as Nurses' Aides, Farmers
Aides, First Aid, and the U. S. O.
Six War Assemblies, to "cover the
causes and ideologies behind the
war, the military campaigns and
post - war reconstruction." were
Continued oh Page Three
Poet Robert Frost
To Present Lecture
On Trends in Verse
Specially Contributed by Leila Jack-
son, '46, and Marie Wasserman, '46
ferhp'te University, April 15.�
Senators Ball, Burton, and Hill
demanded the immediate establish-
ment of machinery for United Na-
tions cooperation. The meeting at
which they discussed their bill was
sponsored by the Non-Partisan
League to Win the Peace.
Robert Frost, the first. New
England poet to win tne; P.iflitzer
Prize, will speak on tne various
trends in modern poetry at 8 P. M.,
Thursday,, April ,29, in Goodhart,
under the, joint auspices of Bryn
Mawr, Baldwin, and Shipley.
Although, he was born /in San
Francisco, all of Mr. Frost's work
is associated with New England,
where he has lived since he was
fifteen. Having worked his own
farm and Jived with the Vermont
farmers* all of his poems are full
of the authentic feeling and beauty
of Vermont farm life. A"�ong the
most famous , are, "Birches,"
"Mending Wall," "The .Hired Man"
and "The Runaway." , .
Mr. Frost holds the,gold medal '
of the .American Academy of Arts
and Letters, as well as the silver
medal of the Poetry Society of
America, ,and the Mark Twain
medal. Ar PM Beta Kappa, Mr.
Frost hojds.; degree* ,and|, fejiow.,
ships from Dartmouth, Harvard,
Columbia,.and Yatejaiyd is a mem-
ber of the Nation*!,,Institute of
Arta�and Letters, ami the Ameri-
can Phyq�o&bi�aA'S�?iBti�
Senator Ball, and contained the
following points:
1. The United States should take
initiative in establishing a mech-
anism for post-war planning.
2. Economic, administrative and
relief agencies should be set up
in lands reconquered from the
Axis.
3. Procedure and machinery for
settling disputes must be estab-
lished.
4. Future . military aggression
must be suppressed^
5. There should be a commit-
ment of nations to refrain from
territorial aggrandizement.
This bill is the first concrete
action on the part of our govern-
ment towards post-war planning,
and is sponsored by both Demo-
crats and Republicans.
Senator Ball explained the ne-
cessity for immediate action,
stressing that failure to co-operate
with our allies" now will make
agreement at the end of the war
more difficult. If we want to take
the initiative 1n post-war planning,
we must convince other nations of
our' sincerity, he said. They
learned from Versailles to be wary
of plans formulated by our govern-
ment without senate approval.
Senator Hill continued? empha-
sising the dangers of a return to
isolation and stating that we must
make our desires known and estab-
lish the machinery for their execu-
tion.
Senator Burton pointed out that
we have an exceptional oppor-
tunity because it is only in time of
great suffering' that1 people are
willing Mr abandon t*�eir national
selnahness. ' '"�' �
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Bryn Mawr, introduced the speak-
ers. Miss Donnelly related first
her own recollections of the great
novelist's visits to Bryn Mawr:
ortce in 1894, when he spoke on
Balzac, and again in 1905, when
he discussed "Our Speech" at Com-
mencement. His distinguished
presence and piercing glance pro-
duced an "indescribable" effect on
the eager audience, for he was
then at the height of his fame-
Donald Brien, a collector of
executive officer of the Women's
Reserve Division of the Navy De-
partment. Before becoming a
"Wave," she was the business
manager of the Junior League of
America.
First Officer Rice is the Service
Command director of the W. A.
A. C.
A WAVE, a WAAC, and a
"Marine" will be in the Deanery �
�on Tuesday afternoon from 1:30
n__ i�w,�� ��.,.. u: .___.,_. �# to 4:00 to see.anyone interested in
Henry James, gave his account of . ^
'A Reader's Interest in Henry
The reaolution-wao road by Jamps," James-has-enjdyed great
these services.
fame but comparative unpopular-
ity; "he has attracted more criti-
cal attention than any novelist
since the Civil War." Mr. Brien's
interest was first aroused by the
difficult Notes of a Novelist, by
Mr. James. Finding that this
book did not yield its secret easily,
he started on a life-long study of
the works of Henry James.
The eminent critic, Leon Edel,
whose article on Henry James and
W. H. Auden will appear in next
month's Poetry, discussed his ob-
servations of James' work. A
'novelist's novelist," he asks al-
Aesthetic Theories,
Elucidated by Nahm
Common Room, April lfy. � A
consideration of the structure of
a work of art and various perti-
nent aesthetic theories was the
topic of the paper which Dr. Nahm
read last Wednesday. The work
of art, said Dr. Nahm, stands for
and is the sign of what the artist
feels about the non-aesthetic fac-
tors he incorporates into his work.
This incorporation is accomplished
ways'to be met on "his o'wn~ground. |in Jhe artist'8 Particular sensuous
He wants the reader to enjoy his j media-
virtuosity and for this reason his
novels are tlje most "unrelaxed
ever written"; they demand mi-
nute attention. His books are "too
good for the public" and he must
have an I audience addicted to him
who will appreciate the "great
tonal canvasses of astonishing
richness."
Dr. Nahm opposed A. C. Brad-
ley's view, taken from Matthew
Arnold's statement that the "sym-
bol is equivalent with the thing
symbolized." Bradley holds that
a work of art provides its own
frame of reference, and its struc-
ture is such (hat it is immediately
intelligible without abstraction.
Continued on Pane Three
W. H. Auden, English poet and Dr. Nahm brought out that an
critic, who is now teaching at | analysis of structure alone is im-
Swarthmorev read his own tribute portant but not sufficient. Rodin
said that lines and tints were
"signs of hidden realities," and
that the work of art is enriched
by spiritual content. This implies.
Dr. Nahm said, that there are
certain non-aesthetic factors pres-
ent in the work of art which are
evolved by the artist's technical
ftn; i
Dr. Nahm challenged the devel-
opments of Bradley's theory of
"aesthetic surface" in the field of
poetry. Words are not fixed sym-
bols, nor do the expression and
thought of mo*t,single, words tally
exactly.
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All members of the College
are reminded that under
present Civilian Defense
regulations no public signal
by whistle or siren is a *ign
for turning on lights after a
blackout. During a night
alert the blackout is sup-
posed to continue from the
first public signal on whistles
or sirens until the Ail-Clear,
which is announced by radio.
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